Waaay Looong first ride

[Mackeroni]

If you're taking the BRP, There is a Yammy dealership, just off the BRP, in Waynesboro VA, Wayne's Cycle Shop 1-540-943-1111. Maybe, 5 minutes off BRP at the most.
This is where I purchased my 06 and they've been GREAT to work with!!!

Ask for Mike... He's the service manger.

Great idea... but I've decided to also squeeze in an afternoon at the Barber Museum in Birmingham before I hit the road. I will need to bail off the BRP where it intersects I77 so I can make it home by Monday afternoon.

However, I will keep the info about Wayne's handy. I know I will be on the BPR again before too long.

Thanks...

 

[Mackeroni]

The more I think about it, the more I think I better just change it enroute. I can pick up a filter and crush washer when I buy the bike...check the standard tool kit to make sure I have the correct wrench. I might even take a socket with me...and as long as its not raining, any WalMart parking lot will do. I can buy the oil, a cheap funnel and something to drain into. Heck, they will even recycle the drained oil. If it is raining, I can pull into a DIY carwash bay. Nobody's ever using them when it rains.
Necessity is the mother of invention!

I absolutely agree that you should change the oil enroute. Like you said, pick up a filter and crush washer at D&H and take 'em with you. You'll need a 17mm socket for the oil drain plug. For a mess free oil filter change take a 4mm allen wrench and use it as described here: https://www.fjrtech.com/getdbitem.cfm?item=33

Enjoy your ride back home - by the time you get home I'm sure you'll have a good idea about what farkles you need on the bike - grips, windshield, risers, etc.

Thanks for the tips Fuzzy. I will take the socket and 4mm AW and try to keep the oil out of the bodywork and off the exhaust. Looking forward to farkling. I even considered trying to add something before I leave Alabama, but I better wait. My financial advisor... err... wife will be watching the credit card statements closely. :angry2: She knows what happens whenever I buy a new ride.

 

[Charlie Hoss]

When Geezer and I took a trip out to Utah for WFO6, we arrived a bit overdue for an oil change. We found a Pep Boys store in Salt Lake City. They carried Castrol 4 stroke motorcycle oil as well as the usual others, and the Pure One filters that us 05 owners like so well.

They didn't want to mess with motorcycles but suggested that we also buy a cheap funnel and oil drain pan and change it ourselves in the parking lot and they would take the old stuff when we were done. It worked out fine and the price was right.